Windows Explorer is shutting down

[Guest]

I have several technical publications that I use for work, and for the most
part, I have been able to install them except for two.

The problem:
When I insert the disc in question, explorer opens up and then states that
it is shutting down. The same thing happens if I try to manually access the
files through Windows Explorer or IE. I've tried two different discs with the
same information (believing that it may have been a bad disc). The problem
still persisted. The discs open fine on our XP machines, so I am led to
believe that this is a Vista problem.

Is there any idea what may be causing this? If yes, is there a workaround?
These files are important.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kirk jim]

it may be that this disk has an AUTORUN.inf file and windows is trying to
autorun something
on that disk like an intro screen (some cds have this)

There should normally not be some other reason for this to happen.

Does something start when you place it into the XP machines?

In order to turn autorun off on Vista....

see this page and scroll down to the place (towards the bottom) where it
says:
Windows Vista AutoPlay and AutoRun
http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm

it has some screenshots.. disable autrun and try it again..

please tell me if this helps

thanks